TACTILE TEXTILES

Multi-faceted designer Tiffany Loy pushes the boundaries of textile construction to create experimental forms and fibre-based art pieces. Initially trained in industrial design, Singaporean textile artist and educator Tiffany Loy has always been curious about machines and production processes. Known for her attention to miniscule details in her intricate woven works, she employs a weaver's approach to sculpture, exploring relationships between elements of materiality, like structure, tension and colour and creating intrinsically sculptural works that reveal the often hidden tactile qualities within woven materials.

- OLHA ROMANIUK

The weaving loom was the predecessor of the modern computer (its binary system led to the invention of punch cards, which are essentially inputs in os and 1s)," Tiffany says, as she explains what initially drew her interest to textiles and likening the loom to the earliest computer. "I was drawn to studying the weaving loom, what it could produce, as well as how it works."

Since the founding her studio in 2014, she has utilised her background in product and textile design to hone her unique approach in creating products with attentive details in the context of the overall impact in a spatial environment. She exhibited her tactile, woven creations internationally, at venues such as the Singapore Art Museum, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and La Triennale di Milano.

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